Pascal’s Law Creates Ancient Hydraulic Power

NO, THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT. IF HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE WORKED THAT WAY, THEN YOU COULD USE IT TO MAKE MACHINES THAT EXERT NEAR-INFINITE FORCE. AND ANCIENT PEOPLE COULD HAVE DEMOLISHED ENTIRE MOUNTAINS JUST BY DRILLING SMALL TUNNELS AND FILLING THEM WITH WATER. WHEN I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT PASCAL'S LAW, I TRIED TO DISPROVE IT BY SHOWING THAT IT WOULD LEAD TO ABSURD CONSEQUENCES, BUT IT TURNS OUT HYDRAULIC PRESSES AND RUINA MONTIUM ARE BOTH REAL THINGS.

A stick-figure teacher explains hydrostatic pressure and Pascal’s law to a classroom. The narrator initially thinks the law must be wrong because it implies absurdly powerful machines and ancient mountain demolition, but discovers that hydraulic presses and the Roman mining technique ruina montium actually existed. The meme is used as a reaction to realizing that a seemingly impossible scientific consequence is real.

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